Board of Directors
John Fillmore
Non Executive Chairman
LLB, Bcomm
Appointed Chairman in May, 2007. Board member since May, 2007. John has practised as a Lawyer continuously since his admission in 1977. In 1985 he established his own firm, J.A. Fillmore & Co. That firm continues under his control today as a boutique legal firm providing advice and services to a range of business enterprises both within and outside Australia. John is chairman or director of a number of unlisted companies in agriculture, financial services, investment, property and several private investment companies. John holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Melbourne and is a fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia. John’s involvement in the boards has become a substantial component of his professional life in recent years.
Keith Weston
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
BSc (hons) MAusIMM
Appointed July, 2007. Board member since July, 2007. Keith is a Geologist with over 23 years experience in the minerals industry in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. This includes working for North Kalgurli Mines, Planet Resources Group and an extended period within the Mineral Resources section of the Geological Survey of Victoria and Department of Minerals and Energy. Keith was the Exploration Manager of Goldminco NL prior to consulting to the Victorian and Western Australian minerals industry.
Since 2001, Keith has worked in the Extractive Industries sector for a number of quarrying operations, in both a managerial and technical capacity; prior to his appointment as managing director of the company.
Shane Turner
Non Executive Director
CA, BBus
Appointed April, 2008. Board member since April, 2008. Shane is a Chartered Accountant with 23 years experience. Shane commenced his career in Audit with KPMG, Melbourne in 1987. Between 1990 and 2000, he worked for one of the largest regional public accounting practices in Victoria. In August, 2000 he established his own practice, Shane Turner & Associates. Shane provides Accounting, Taxation and Computing services to a range of small, medium and large businesses across Australia. Shane Turner & Associates are ASIC Registered Agents and assist many other Companies with company secretarial services and provide Accounting services to another Public Company involved in mineral exploration and development of mineral tenements. Shane assists the company with ASIC, ASX and Tax compliance services.
Dr Phillip Wing
Non Executive Director
PhD, MEc, BEc, CPA
Appointed 17 July 2009. Dr Wing is the Executive Chairman of a number of special purpose private equity firms. He is currently Chairman or non executive Director of six investee companies ranging from mining to medical devices. Until January 2006, Phillip was for 7 years a partner of Technology Venture Partners (TVP), a specialist Institutional Information Technology and Telecommunications venture capital firm, and was an active non- executive director on many of TVP’s portfolio companies in Australia and overseas. Prior to joining TVP, Phillip was a senior executive in IBM’s global and Asia Pacific management team. He held responsibility for a major industry business unit in Asia and was also General Manager of the IBM (Australia and New Zealand) consulting business. His last role in IBM was as General Manager (Global Services) responsible for strategy, marketing and business development including acquisitions, alliances and business partners. Prior to his career at IBM, Phillip was a partner at Ernst and Young, KPMG Peat Marwick and Touche Ross, specializing in strategy and IT and corporate advisory consulting. Phillip held managing partner roles responsible for the consulting business units and spent two years on secondment as the Chief Information Officer of NSW Health. Phillip has worked extensively in the USA, Asia, and Europe. He has a Bachelor and Masters of Economics and has completed a PhD in Organisational Change. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and also an adjunct lecturer with the Centre for Applied Finance (Macquarie University).
William Howe
Non Executive Director
B.Sc. FAusIMM
Appointed 17 July 2009. Mr Howe, Hampton Mining founder, has over 29 years experience in the mining industry and has worked in Southern and West Africa, Asia, Australia and the USA. He has been instrumental in the development of a number of new mining operations in Australia and Indonesia including the development and management of the first copper heap leach Project in Australia, and an open pit coal mine in South East Kalimantan in Indonesia. He specializes in optimising existing operations and the development of new operations in both underground and open pit mining environments and has extensive experience in mine development, mine management and corporate management. He has worked in many geological and mining environments in several countries around the world and in such commodities as gold, coal, copper, uranium, antimony, chrome and tin. Mr Howe was a founding director of Straits Resources Limited and was Managing Director of Ghana Gold Mines Limited, Hargraves Resources NL and Selwyn Mines Limited.
William Etheridge
Non Executive Director
B.Eng, MA (Cantab)
Appointed 17 July 2009. Mr Etheridge has over 30 years experience in the mining and mining finance industry, based mainly in Sydney and London. He worked as a mining engineer with Hamersley Iron, and as an economist for mining companies in London (Consolidated Gold Fields) and Sydney (Renison Goldfields Consolidated). He has also worked within mining companies (including Hargraves Resources and Selwyn Mines Limited) focusing on mining project scoping, analysis and appraisal, valuation of internal and external opportunities, cut-off grade analysis, project administration, preparation of company reports, and investor relations. He has also worked in stockbroking (including Merrill Lynch, ABS White and HSBC James Capel) as a resources analyst, covering a range of mining companies, and including experience in research & equity raising. He has consulted on mining investment opportunities in coal, copper, gold, nickel, zinc and vanadium, and has undertaken detailed analysis of a number of mineral commodities, both metals and energy.
